I’ve reemerged from my posting hiatus just to find out what’s going on here

I’ve re-emerged from my posting hiatus just to find out what the hell happened here…

110% difficulty strikes again

My guess is it must be happening to an extent considering the difficulty in enforcing labour codes in a country of 2bil people. But there’s no evidence of systemic use of child labour the way it used to occur in, say, Victorian England.

Hrrrrnnggh Colonel, I’m trying to sneak around No Man’s Land but I’m dummy thicc and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps alerting the Huns

I feel like his solo podcasts aren’t all that bad. Gets straight to the topic at hand without any meandering. Some of the guests he platforms and his appearances in other media, though, tend to brush up against manosphere territory.

Wish we didn’t have to roll the dice for access to decent mental healthcare. Glad you managed to luck out!

AFAIK, the use of Bharat is considered to be a form linguistic imperialism foisted by the plains-dwellers upon the rest of the country.

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It’s Philosophy Tube! Rather, a bit about a snooty brit being condescending towards Chinese philosophy in Philosophy Tube’s video about Confucius.

“The orientals are incapable of a single original thought in their robotic minds, old boy!”

Can’t say I’m surprised. Just a horde of cut-throat individualists in tech, it’s a miracle they even reached 1400 members.

I’ve been trying to stick to the No Zero Days concept as though my life depends on it. Problem is, I seem to be put-together only when there are people around me that I can disappoint. When those people leave…whoosh, I’m back to day-long doomscrolling sessions on the couch.

Tell me about it, I’ve just finished taking the crippling social anxiety, to liberating alcohol consumption, to crippling alcoholism slip’n slide

That sounds plausible but I’m not entirely convinced that the Soviets in the 40s could spook the US into mobilising at such scale.

Weren’t the Germans completely routed on the Eastern front post-Stalingrad?

It’s not surprising that an encyclopedia maintained by volunteers is heavily biased when the only people with sufficient time and money to volunteer are terminally-online basement-dwellers.

This (at times insufferable) article does a good job of describing the effort it takes to combat misinformation on Wikipedia

This is hilarious, guy sounds like Jonathan Pie on one of his tirades.

I too remember enjoying Dragon Age II until I was told that I shouldn’t by angry online s